Do we genuinely need to stockpile?

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In light of this morning’s news, I have started to wonder if we genuinely do need to stock up in the event of a no deal Brexit? None of us (touch wood) require any ongoing medication, though 9mo DD has a sensitive tummy when it comes to milk and tolerates HiPP best. I’ve a feeling cows’ milk won’t go down well when she’s 12mo, and was planning to try almond milk or similar as a back up.

Should we be stocking up on HiPP/milk alternatives/Calpol etc?

Luckily we’re just switching to reusable nappies and wipes, so that’s one less thing to think of I guess.

I’ve been to Costco today and stocked up on some drink and food. The only thing I’m concerned about it medicine m if I don’t have pain killers I will become house bound and unable to move or do anything

Are there any over the counter combinations eg paracetamol and ibuprofen that can help? I know they’re nothing like prescription drugs, but they might help. I’m sorry you suffer from a painful condition.

Yes
HTH

I grow herbs in the garden and have about 15 different ones out there. We're going to have loads of chillies to freeze too. And a store cupboard of dried herbs / spices too.

Ceiling, I really feel for you.

My medications are worrying me. I have to see the nurse next week anyway so I will ask what the surgery recommend we do. I would like a prescription and am even prepared to buy the stuff online if I have to (even though I am entitled to free meds).

I am hoping the GP will give me the prescription I am looking for.

If you have space and money to stockpile basics and favourite treats it would be silly not to before prices rise or supply chains are disrupted. Only stuff you actually eat already.

Indeed: someone on another thread predictably called stockpilers stupid. I’d much rather be proven stupid than be unable to feed my family. If BoZo succeeds with no deal, I certainly don’t want to be anywhere near the shops in November.
If he doesn’t and it was all for nothing, whoohoo, very light grocery bill for a few months and one middle aged lady extremely happy to be proven wrong.

I’m just not prepared to not feed my son. It’s as simple as that. Therefore he comes first so I am stock piling incase. People can call stock Pilers stupid if they want. But I know my son will have food. I’m just not prepared to risk it. And I don’t understand anyone who is not to be honest

Exactly. I'd rather be prepared and wrong than unprepared and wrong! I don't see why others get so agitated about the content of other people's cupboards / freezers etc! 🤷‍♀️

Probably because they're worried they've backed the wrong horse but don't want to admit it?

Agreed Dontgiveamonkeys. I don't understand either.
The term 'panic buying' frustrates me too. My brother uses it a lot (despite his reliance on insulin he insists that it'll all be fine)
Around Christmas he and mother bang on about people panic buying when they see people with full trolleys. Their own full trolleys are of course not panic buying. Oh no, they naturally are buying more than usual because they have 12 people coming to stay for 4 days. Evidently nobody else is filling trolley for similar reasons. I'm quite nice but that one makes me want to stab him roll my eyes.
It snows..... everyone is panic buying otherwise why are shelves empty. Could it be that people are just doing their normal shop, and replacement supplies are not getting through.
And tbh, if I did not have a well stocked larder (aka mad stockpile) if I I knew that stocks were running low I'd certainly go and pick up bits so my family didn't go hungry.
If there is a definition to panic buying, surely it's being unprepared, having nothing in and having to dash round all the shops (thus also wasting time and petrol) gathering up the odd loaf, manky lettuce and battered litre of uht milk that's left. And yes, I have seen shops that look lot like that.

@socks. This. It just baffles me. Why would u not want to be prepared. And I agree about the Xmas trolleys. Last year when I was doing my Xmas shop I over heard a lady moaning about the amount of people and that they were filling up their trolleys. She was doing the same.

I started a small "Brexit Box" stash earlier in the year before the original March deadline - DH looked at me as if I'm mad as he's a very laid back, go with the flow, kind of person. However, he's recently turned to me and asked how the stash is doing, and whether it needs topping up and what the expiry dates are. In fact he's got quite nagging about it.

For what it's worth, I think the impact of a no-deal Brexit will be rolling shortages of different items, mainly fruit & veg, whether directly or indirectly (e.g. ingredients for UK made foods are stuck in shipping). We should be ok in this household as we don't have special dietary requirements, so we can be adaptable to what is available.

However, depending on how the next couple of months go, I think there is a strong possibility of something happening, such as bad weather, riots, a disruption to fuel due to protests or another nation-wide electricity cut, that could trigger a panic-buying situation, either at the end of October or early November. The psychology of mass population behaviour is quite interesting and I think enough people are already in a heightened sense of fear/anxiety about this and it won't take much to cause a wave of panic buying to the point where even normally sensible people think they need to go and empty the shelves of milk and bread.

That is the main reason I've started our stash - so we don't have to go anywhere near the shops until it all calms down again.

@Dontgiveamonkeys1350 Yep, I agree completely. I was a kid in the 80s when we had no money and spent weeks at a time living on chips and beans, or tins of cheap stewed steak from the food bank. I don't want that for my children and if I can do anything to mitigate that, then I will and I give zero fucks for anyone that thinks I'm deluded in doing so.

I'm ok for tinned stuff. I need to make a start on clearing the freezer and then stocking up on frozen veg.

S1naidSucks sadly not won’t even touch the pain so it’s all prescription grade stuff.

No, no you really don't need to stock pile. Take your chances. If you didn't vote or voted to leave, perhaps you will also get lucky!

Just wait and see mum2jakie just how quickly prudent people who are in a position to do so who have been taking sensible precautions to feed their families should the worst happen, who are currently being called dramatic, scaremongers or stupid by leavers, start being called hoarders by those very same if the shit hits the fan and shortages kick in. They’ll be expected to share what they painstakingly put aside by idiots who refused to acknowledge what their vote had invited.

Some commentators have suggested rationing is a possibility, I understand some county councils are preparing along such lines. Not sure it will come to that. Should it, leavers ought to be at the back of the queue. Again, I think it will be astonishing how quickly many of them will deny their vote once their families begin to suffer.

@user1471453601 , you do you but I will do what is best for me and my family.

Just got back from Asda where the yeast, bread flour, tinned tomatoes, tinned chick peas and rice are all very low in stock or completely out. Also not much paracetamol or ibuprofen.

I’m stocking up in earnest now, and feeling worried about medicines supplies and fuel.

@user1471453601 why should I take my chances when I can just buy some more and not have to. That makes no logical sense what so ever. I would rather not take my chances and feed my son thank you

I always have a good assortment of staple food in the kitchen, I was raised like that and I think it makes me happy. Now, there are some foods that my family consider staple but are actually imported from the EU, and particular brands that are difficult to find in normal conditions. So when I found them on offer recently I bought them liberally. Chances are they’re going to increase in price, due to the exchange rate even if there are no tariffs.
That doesn’t affect anyone, I’m not depleting the shelves of supermarkets.

I am, nonetheless, terribly upset for those of you that are anxious about medications. Because it’s not NORMAL that people in the 5th most industrialised country in the world should worry about getting access to luff saving medication like insulin or isotope for radio etc. It’s not normal. Even if it’s just a worry and not a real risk, it’s not a acceptable. And not a single death or worsening of symptoms due to brexit are acceptable. It’s moronic and morally unacceptable

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As a random offshoot to this conversation - citric acid is also useful for making sherbet.

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